On 2nd April, the French Senate adopted a proposal to allow a derogation to the necessary affiliation to a social security regime as required by Article L. 5551-1 of the Codes des transports. Full text of the 2nd April Senate meetings can be found at: http://www.senat.fr/petite-loi-ameli/2018-2019/369.html Specifically see Section 37, [...]Find Out More

Oceanskies Crew Limited, the Guernsey based yacht crew employment and payroll division of Oceanskies, is receiving many enquiries regarding the current situation concerning the payment of social security contributions by yacht crew as the Mediterranean yachting industry gears up for the 2018 season. We have therefore prepared this pre-season update to advise of the current [...]Find Out More

Oceanskies have published a guide to explain the obligations of yacht crew and the employers of yacht crew working onboard French flagged yachts or residing in France for the purpose of social security contributions. The guide follows the implementation of the latest version of the French social security decree for seafarers with effect from the 1st January, 2018. [...]Find Out More

The latest update on the French Social Security Financing Act of 2015 is that the amendment proposed by Mrs. Monica Michel to remove the obligation of French resident seafarers to be affiliated to ENIM has been approved. The amendment instead simply requires French resident seafarers to be affiliated to an equivalent [...]Find Out More

The French newspaper Nice Matin has used the start of the Cannes Yachting Festival to announce the end of the Social Security Finance Act and specifically of ‘Décret no 2017-307′ which passed into French law in March, 2017. A link to the article can be found here: Nice Matin – ENIM Article Unfortunately this [...]Find Out More